Monday, January 7, 2013

Lights, Camera -- Entrapment! Homeland Security Theater in Portland

Osman Barre, a
Somali-born software engineer living in Portland, Oregon, was concerned that
his teenage son Mohamed
Osman Mohamud was being radicalized by exposure to jihadist literature.
Barre expressed his concerns to the FBI, which quite helpfully arranged for two
of its “terrorism
facilitators” to take charge of the 18-year-old’s indoctrination. As a
result, Mohamud, now 21 years old, is on trial for involvement in a terrorism
“plot” that was entirely scripted and controlled by the FBI.

Mohamud was born in
Somalia shortly before the U.S. invaded that country as part of a UN-mandated
mission to impose a central government on that fissiparous tribal culture. That
mission disintegrated in 1994 after it became clear that the Somalis weren’t
interested in living under a UN-designed government. Thirteen years later, the
administration of George W. Bush induced the Ethiopian government to invade and occupy the country. Washington's ongoing war against Somalia involves the use of troops from a coalition
of regional proxies and drone strikes against “suspected militants.”

Like many other
native Somalis, Mohamud is aware of the violence being waged against his
homeland – and other Muslim countries – by Washington. As a teenager he
expressed an interest in traveling to Saudi Arabia, immersing himself in the
study of Islam, and then enlisting in a defensive jihad in Afghanistan or
Yemen.

By the time his
father contacted the FBI in 2009, Mohamud had struck up an e-mail
correspondence with militants abroad, and had written essays on physical
fitness for jihad-oriented online publications. He had also made plans to work
in Alaska in order to raise funds for his anticipated travels abroad.

According to the
criminal complaint filed after his arrest, Mohamud attempted to board a
flight to Kodiak, Alaska at Portland International Airport on June 14, 2010, but
was detained at the gate and questioned by FBI agents. Not aware that he had
been under FBI surveillance for several months, Mohamud was open about his plans.
He said that he had found a fishing job, and that he intended to travel to
Yemen if he could raise the money and obtain a visa.

The ingenuous candor
displayed by Mohamud in dealing with the FBI makes it difficult to believe that
he was an aspiring terrorist. The purpose of the airport interview was not to
determine if the recent high school graduate was a criminal, but rather to
assess his suitability as a subject for the FBI’s radicalization program.

A little more than a
week after the FBI had questioned Mohamud, the Bureau dispatched two members of
its traveling Homeland Security Theater Troupe to act as “terrorism
facilitators.” The FBI’s terrorist recruitment program is an atypically
efficient government enterprise: In the case of Mohamed Mohamud it took the
agency five months to transform a misguided but not criminally inclined
teenager into a fully realized jihadist.

The indoctrination
and manipulation of Mohamud followed the familiar script.

The FBI’s undercover
operatives had lengthy conversations intended to identify and accentuate the
subject’s grievances, all of which focused on the U.S. government’s bloody
aggression against Muslims living abroad. They enticed the impressionable
youngster by playing to his religious idealism, his outrage over the violence
committed against his fellow Muslims, and his adolescent desire to prove his
worthiness and valor. Then they presented him with an opportunity to become “operational”
by conducting a large-scale terrorist attack against Portland’s municipal
Christmas tree lighting ceremony on the day after Thanksgiving – an event that
would attract a large and vulnerable crowd.

As one of the FBI’s
terrorism tutors discussed the attack, he mentioned that “there’s gonna be a
lot of children there.” Mohamud replied that the bombing would make Americans
understand what it’s like “to be attacked in their own element with their
families celebrating the holidays,” and that such a horrifying incident might
prompt them “to refrain from killing our children, women…. [I]t’s not fair they
should do that to people and not [be] feeling it.”

This admittedly
horrifying sentiment differs little from the opinions expressed by Americans
who treated the carnage inflicted by their government against Afghan and Iraqi
populations as “payback” for the 9/11 atrocity.

Mohamud reiterated
that view in a propaganda video staged by the FBI’s “terrorism facilitators”
just before the end of the sting operation:

“This is a message …
to those who have wronged themselves and the rights of others. [For] the
Americans and others. A dark day is coming your way….. As your soldiers target
our civilians, we will not help you to do so. Did you think that you could
invade a Muslim land, and we would not invade you?”

The operation ended
as FBI-scripted melodramas of this kind almost always do – with the patsy being
arrested after trying to detonate a phony bomb, and the local Special Agent in Charge
issuing a self-exalting press release boasting that the agency had heroically
thwarted its own terrorist “plot.”

It’s important to
recognize, once again, that prior to his contact with the FBI, Mohamud had never
expressed any interest in staging a terrorist attack in the United States, or
in attacking civilians anywhere. Every detail of the supposed bombing plot was
dictated by the FBI’s provocateurs.

The Feds insist that
Mohamud had been given repeated opportunities to withdraw from the plot. But once
Mohamud had earned the Bureau’s malignant attention, his fate was sealed: He
would either become a patsy in a bogus plot or an informant on the agency’s
behalf. On previous performance there’s no reason to believe that the FBI would
be willing to walk away from a young Muslim man who had become the target of
one of the agency’s terrorism campaigns.

As Montielh would
later recount in a
lawsuit he filed against the Bureau, the FBI recruited him “to infiltrate and spy on
the activities of the members of the [Irvine] Mosque in an effort to uncover
potential terrorists and plots against the Government. He was instructed
by his handlers to act in a manner that suggested that he was a terrorist....
His actions made many of the members of the Mosque uncomfortable and the
Attorney for the Mosque … contacted him in an effort to get him to stop
attending regular prayers." (Emphasis added.)

While
driving to a Friday night worship service in June 2007, Montielh offered Niazi
and another member of the mosque an opportunity to become “operational.” The
offended Muslims went to Hussan Ayloush, director of the Southern California
chapter of CAIR, to express concerns that the fellow they knew as Aziz had “gone
crazy or is about to do something – and they would be considered accomplices
since they knew him.”

Two
Special Agents were sent to interview Niazi and others who had met with
Monteilh. This wasn’t to learn about the details of a “plot” that the FBI
controlled, of course, but to find out how badly their provocateur had been
compromised – and to determine which of the innocent targets might be
blackmailed into becoming an informant.

Family resemblance: The sword and shield of the American KGB....

It was
discovered that Niazi was distantly related to an Afghan figure with an
indirect and trivial connection to the Taliban. The Feds eagerly seized on this
trivial “offense” by threatening to charge the young man with “perjury” because
he had not mentioned that attenuated relationship in his immigration paperwork.

Ironically,
in 2009 Montielh – who spent some time in prison for fraud – rescued Niazi by filing
his lawsuit against the FBI, which laid bare the corrupt and criminal
tactics used by the Bureau in targeting the Irvine-area Muslim population. The
former snitch’s change of heart proved to be Niazi’s salvation: The terrified
and disillusioned refugee was told that if he didn’t cooperate with the Feds,
he faced 30 years in prison.

That’s how the FBI treats Muslims who do what is
described as their civic duty by reporting suspected terrorist who are on the
federal payroll. And it’s reasonable to expect that something similar would
have happened to Mohamud had he told the FBI’s “terrorism facilitators” to go
to hell.

Attorney General Eric
Holder claims that Mohamud "chose at every step to continue" with the
bombing plot orchestrated by the Feds. But this happened after the FBI had cut off his access to a legitimate job in Alaska by
putting him on a no-fly list.

Dr. Marc Sageman, a
former CIA case officer who interviewed Mohamud extensively following his
arrest, has
testified that being forbidden to travel to Alaska was a “pivot point” in
the young man’s life. He had wanted to “make a lot of money,” and when that
opportunity was foreclosed the young man became severely depressed.

... and the Soviet version.

“Prior to his meeting”
with the FBI’s terrorism recruiters, Sageman concluded, Mohamud “had a low
probability of turning to violence.”

Rather than leaving
the teenager alone, or – dare we imagine – warning him against resorting to
violent crime, the FBI identified him as a troubled young man who was alienated
from his father (“I have been betrayed by my family,” he lamented in an early
conversation with an FBI informant) and burdened with a useful sense of
grievance. So they isolated him, indoctrinated him, gave him thousands of
dollars in cash, and then deployed him against the civilian population in
Portland.

While it was true
that – unlike its murderous debacles in Oklahoma
City and the
first World Trade Center attack -- the bomb rigged up by the FBI didn’t go
off, the Bureau’s scripted plot was a successful terrorist operation: It
generated public fears that led to a desired change in policy.

In 2005, the City of
Portland quite sensibly withdrew from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, an
entity that apparently exists for the sole purpose of recruiting credulous
people to take part in manufactured terrorism plots. The Bureau ardently
desired to demonstrate the supposed need to reinstate the Portland-area JTTF.

Significantly, the FBI – in violation of an existing
agreement with the city government -- didn’t
bother to inform Mayor Adams about the supposed threat to bomb the November
2010 Christmas tree lighting ceremony until after
Mohamud’s arrest.

What this means is that the Bureau considered the Mayor to
be a security risk, because he and other
critics of the FBI in the municipal government were the chief targets of the
operation. The Bureau’s objective was to make it politically impossible to
resist the reinstatement of the Portland-area JTTF, so that the local branch of
the American Cheka can continue its vital work of spying on political
dissidents and turning troubled but redeemable people into fodder for the
contemporary gulag.

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12 comments:

MoT
said...

The entirely "staged" incident in Portland was quite cynically arranged so that the city would be brought back into the FBI's manipulative orbit. Federal Bureau of Incitement would be a better moniker.

The FBI should not be entrapping people like this. But there is no reason what so ever why the United States should have Somalis, Saudis, Afghans, Iraqis, or any other Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian here. The Feebs are importing these 3rd world savages then using them to help destroy the freedoms of Traditional Americans.

But there is no reason what so ever why the United States should have Somalis, Saudis, Afghans, Iraqis, or any other Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian here. The Feebs are importing these 3rd world savages then using them to help destroy the freedoms of Traditional Americans.

Who are the "savages" in the Mohamud case? Looks to me like it's your "Traditional Americans" (i.e. whites), not anyone from Africa.

And yet the average Amoricon fleshwaste would read (or more likely have read to them) this description of events, shrug, and say "well, better they stage these events than have the real thing happen 'over here.'" IOW, "our bastards" can commit all the crimes they want, with impunity, as long as it's only "heathen towelheads" who suffer the consequences.

Will, are you familiar with the case of Khalifah al-Akili? He was arrested "just days after he had sent out an email to friends and local Muslim civil rights groups complaining that he believed he was the target of an FBI 'entrapment' sting."

I'm refinancing my house and one of the 29 forms I had to sign was the PATRIOT ACT INFORMATION DISCLOSURE.

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

What this means for you: When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.

I/we acknowledge that I/we received a copy of this disclosure.

Well, looks like George Washington got his prayer answered after all:

The “Earnest Prayer” of General George Washington at the Disbanding of the Continental Army, June 14, 1783

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government...

Some of His Highness' language is in dispute, but no one doubts or even gives a second thought to his "prayer" for subordination and obedience to God's Government on earth.

This is from GW’s Farewell Speech, 1796:

The UNITY OF GOVERNMENT, which constitutes you one people, IS ALSO NOW DEAR TO YOU. It is justly so; for it is a main PILLAR IN THE EDIFICE of your real INDEPENDENCE; the SUPPORT of your TRANQUILITY at home; your PEACE abroad; of your SAFETY; of your PROSPERITY in every shape; of that very LIBERTY, which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external (but mostly internal) enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the IMMENSE VALUE OF YOUR NATIONAL UNION TO YOUR COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL HAPPINESS; that you should CHERISH A CORDIAL, HABITUAL, AND IMMOVABLE ATTACHMENT TO IT; ACCUSTOMING YOURSELVES TO THINK AND SPEAK OF IT AS OF THE PALLADIUM OF YOUR POLITICAL SAFETY AND PROSPERITY; WATCHING FOR ITS PRESERVATION WITH JEALOUS ANXIETY; DISCOUNTENANCING WHATEVER MAY SUGGEST EVEN A SUSPICION, THAT IT CAN IN ANY EVENT BE ABANDONED, AND INDIGNANTLY FROWNING UPON THE FIRST DAWNING OF EVERY ATTEMPT TO ALIENATE ANY PORTION OF OUR COUNTRY FROM THE REST, or to enfeeble the SACRED TIES which now link together the various parts… Respect for its authority, compliance with its Laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

God said the rich will rule over the poor, no ifs ands or buts. I hate to keep going on and on about GW, but I hate him and I hope he suffered during his illness, what with no FDA approved medicine, just leeches and no anesthesia and nobody by his side but that plug of a fat wife.

I remember reading this article, Imprecatory Prayer: The Intercessor’s Elephant Gun, after 9/11:

“Radical Islam is incorrigible, period. So, face it and embrace it. We are not going to convert or appease these cats. We have nothing they want. There is nothing to negotiate. They want us exterminated. Capisce?

“That said, what do we, Christians in particular, do when faced with an implacable radical enemy?… I, for one, will not take a passive stance against this aggressive enemy.

“You cannot be lame and win this game with these guys. So, as a Christian, I suggest the following:

“One: Back President Bush and his aggressive armed attitude against terrorists and terror supporting nations. Make that the main focal point for your vote during the next election. Picture this when you step into the voting booth this November: some fluctuating, wait-on-the-U.N. type of guy in the Senate while one of Osama’s droogies is arming a nuclear suitcase in your back yard. Take that image with you to the polls. [Here is all the proof I need that the religious right sees the president, any president, as God’s emissary on earth.]

“As people of faith, dust off and use what’s afforded to the believer within the Old and New Testaments, namely the imprecatory prayers.

“What is an imprecatory prayer?

“It is a prayer asking God to crush a clear enemy of His, an enemy which is an aggressive adversary of freedom and peace loving people. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Precious Moments Figurine Collector, the Bible is filled with maledictions prayed by saints and speedily answered by God against violently impenitent enemies of liberty and righteousness.

“So, start tossing imprecatory prayers heavenward and watch what God does to militant implacable Islam. The celestial spanking of terrorists is no big deal for God [and His Presidential Co-pilot.] And our prayers could save thousands of our soldiers’ lives, our citizens’ lives and the lives of innocent, moderate Muslims and others who get caught in the freak boys’ villainous crossfire.”

Are these people ever embarrassed? If God started killing all His enemies, where would He start? It has struck me over the years that Muslims, our implacable enemies who want us dead act more Christlike than Christians.

By the way, what is the purpose of the imprecatory prayers? Does it have any purpose in the New Testament other than imploring God and His President to kill people?

Yossarian, I'm of the opinion that when Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, commanded His followers to pray for their enemies (Matt. 5:44), whatever purpose was served by imprecatory prayer came to an end.

That’s right, Mr. Grigg, but when it’s convenient for us, we put ourselves under the Law – why do we insist that if the Ten Commandments do not hang in classrooms and public buildings, then we “have kicked God out of the public square?” I daresay God will not be kicked anywhere by anyone. And the Ten Commandments are listed elsewhere in the New Testament, but the two most important things in the NT (as I see it) are man’s relationship to Christ and his love for his fellow man. Not only love others as you love yourself, but 1st Corinthians 10:24 and Philippians 2:3 say to seek the other’s well being first and let each esteem others better than himself.

The government has weighed in on imprecatory prayer. (Finally). The headline from USA Today is “Praying for God to hurt someone is not illegal, judge rules.” “Is it okay to ask God to do harm to another person? The theology of such ‘imprecatory prayer’ may be a matter of debate, but a Dallas judge has ruled it is legal, at least as long as no one is actually threatened or harmed.” http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-04-06/pray-to-hurt-others-mikey-weinstein/54084880/1